Ireland's leading telco, Telecom Eireann, woke up to serious competition today as the country's Electricity Supply Board (ESB) set a timetable for its rival service. ESB, in partnership with BT, announced a $108m contract with Lucent Technologies...
By sandwiching a thin layer of the element ruthenium (Ru) between two magnetic layers on the hard disk, scientists at IBM believe they will achieve levels of data density previously thought impossible.
Microsoft's Smartphone 2002 - formerly known as Stinger - includes a multimode browser that supports both internet and wireless standards (HTML 3.2 and WAP 1.2.1), and includes the corresponding security standard SSL (Secure Socket Layer) and WTLS...
What seems to have happened is an echo of just about every other human activity where we start from a very simple compact and efficient basis and gradually build layer upon layer, logical step by logical step, more and more complexity until...
The next layer up from the storage hardware tends to be proprietary software that also changes and creates compatibility problems. This is the logic that drives the latest layer to be added to the mix - the storage portal.
They operate, as Lawrence Webb, director of human-oriented software reseller M-Urge would say, “in the human layer of the IT stack. They can be considered as a thin slice down the stack, in which every layer has been highly optimised to deliver the...